Diana Davies remembers well the first time she and her husband, John Mathna, rode electric bicycles in Chattanooga.
“I went up the hills with a smile on my face” thanks to the bike’s electric pedal assist, said Davies, who joined Mathna on Wednesday for the grand opening of their new business, Chattanooga Electric Bike Co.
“Electric bicycles are game-changers, completely,” Mathna told a crowd invited to the business opening event Wednesday. “This is a big movement — not only for Chattanooga, but for the region, the state and the world, quite frankly.”
Of that first e-bike ride with his wife, taken five years ago, Mathna recalled thinking e-bikes “would change the future of transportation, so we decided we had to get involved somehow.”